Re: Jill - The Duck Lady

On 20 Jan, 21:42, "Jill" <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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<babypink2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jill

a friend of mine has just bought a plot of land and was thinking of
having some chickens and ducks for egg purposes only. I happened to
mention I had a duck many moons ago mainly a family pet, and we had
one egg a day for years. But they tasted so strong I could not eat
them as a "chucky egg" but only in cooking. I have watched the recent
TV and someone mentioned that different ducks deliver different
strength of taste in their eggs.

What good laying ducks would you recommend, that you could eat as the
egg as a fried or "chucky egg"

Ta

Julie

PS: Are chickens and ducks ok to keep on an allotment or is that not
a good idea?

A work colleague brought some duck eggs in one day and treated us all
to scrambled egg on toast at mid morning break. A few hours later the
office building was uninhabitable because of the stink nay stench of
flatulence! - Powerful things duck eggs!

hmm
Duck eggs are lovely but different from chicken eggs
They do NOT make you stink a room out.

Sure as eggs are eggs "something" did! The common denominator for the
"culprits" was the eggs


They ARE rich - creamy - filling - superb for baking as their texture makes
everything rise - perfect for cakes, exquisite for quiches,
One of the BEST recipes is to put a properly poached duck egg on top of
seared salmon fillet with a squeeze of lemon on the top -- better than any
Hollandaise sauce and so much easier.
However the taste of any egg depends entirely on how the birds are fed --  
ducks, chickens or geese.
The stronger the flavour of the substrate or the crap the birds are fed on -
the stronger the taste.  Well fed birds with lots of good clean range and
clean flowing water produce lovely eggs.

SNIP


If you do keep chickens you "will" have an interesting time keeping
rats out of  most hen huts or coops

And THAT is the BIGGEST load of complete CRAP ever written
Chickens DO NOT attract rats. Poor husbandry attracts rats
If you look after birds correctly then you will not bring any more rats in
than would be there without chickens.
We have had hundreds of chickens for years, in small domestic size units,
and some larger ones.
We do not and have not ever had a rat problems.
We also store and sell feed.
We do not and have not a rat problem.

The poor husbandry that attracts rats :  scattering food all over the ground
which is not cleared in 15 minutes, not providing a proper feeder that is
securely hanging or fitted in the housing, not mucking out properly,
mismanaging the compost and litter heap, tossing out food rubbish from the
kitchen whereever,
Not keeping bags of feed properly covered,
There are plenty of ways that humans can attract rats, the chickens DO NOT
do it.

Oh dear - had a humour amputation, or perhaps see a marketing problem?

Please reread the original answer and explain where it says "chickens"
attract rats - the simple fact remains that food is scattered around
despite efforts to avoid it. Unless you have some way of ensuring that
the chicken food supply is judged to be used up exactly at bedtime
there will either be a period without food or a bit left over. The
food must be kept in rat proof containers, we had steel drums with
lids. We used to keep chickens in a reasonably big way (100 in the
flock) when I was a lad. We spent a pretty penny on rat poison in and
around the buildings to control them but it simpy is impossible to
completely eradicate them due to the surrounding area having a natural
population. There is a country lore saying you are never more than 50
yards from a rat. This idea seems to upset a lot of people!

I don't keep chickens now and take care to keep horse feed in bins but
from time to time we find evidence of little visitors so employ rat
poison until the bait in the stations cease to be eaten signifying we
have cleared any incomers out "until the next time"
.

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